Sierra Leone

The Ebola crisis in West Africa is unrelenting, and journalists on the frontline of reporting on the virus are caught between authorities wanting to control how the outbreak is reported, and falling victim to the disease themselves.

Two murdered journalists for the
Africa service of Radio France Internationale, Ghislaine Dupont, 51, and Claude
Verlon, 58, might have had a chance. They were abducted on November 2 in Kidal
in northern Mali, but the vehicle their captors were driving suddenly broke
down, according to news
reports.

We
write a lot at CPJ about the terrible things that happen to journalists because
of their reporting, but we don't often get a chance to show you what happens to
them after they are forced
to flee their homes and land abroad. This video, about three such
journalists, is worth watching.

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It was just days ago that my
daughter had her 11th birthday. She was excited about this birthdayas never before, but I
understood why. A couple of days prior, she was
accepted to the FrederickDouglassAcademy
in Manhattanfor middle school starting next fall. The school is regarded as one of
the best in the city and going there has been her dream.

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My looks have completely changed in recent months. Long hair now colonizes my chin and my head. Never in my adult life have I waited longer than a week without a shave or a haircut, let alone for four months. One ends up doing the strangest things for press freedom in Sierra Leone.

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The case had all the hallmarks of a sordid thriller.
There was "a rogue politician, a journalist getting killed, a staunchly
incurious police, and the media in frenzy," veteran journalist Lansana Gberie wrote
in the New African, describing the fatal
2005 beating of editor Harry Yansaneh in Sierra Leone.